Khador - 35 Point Achievement!

And here's the full army shot! So that's 1 warcaster, 2 solos, 4 infantry, 5 large infantry and 3 heavy warjacks. Fairly low model count actually, but with 3 heavy warjacks and the 5 large Man-O-Wars, it still looks fairly formidable.

I plan on running some practice games now that I have two full 35 point armies painted up, and I'll see if I can do some Battle Reports as well.
I plan on taking a week off painting, just to give myself a break before launching into my Hordes armies. I'm still really excited to start though, so maybe I'll just started getting them assembled...

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Khador - Kodiak

I had doubts about this Warjack - I thought his head looked kinda goofy, sorta like he was wearing some douchey hat. But he grew on me, and his Armoured Fists do look pretty kick ass.

And that's my Khador complete! I started work on my Khador on December 6th, with the assembly of the Khador contents of my Warmachine Two Player Battle Set. It's now December 30th, so just under a month to finish off a 35-point Warmachine army - not too bad! I'll start using this as a benchmark to get my upcoming Hordes armies finished too.

Alright, I'm going to go outside now and see if I can sort out a whole army shot - stay tuned!

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Khador - Koldun Lord

Being honest, I wasn't looking forward to painting this model. He just isn't a model I particularly like, and I found it difficult to motivate myself finish him up. Still, I vowed that I wouldn't even touch my Hordes until my Khador was done, so I pushed through and got him painted up anyways :) I plan on using him to marshall my Destroyer, which I read is a common and effective tactic.

One more Warjack to go, and my Khador are finished!

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Khador - War Dog

It was really difficult getting the colour on his fur right - I tried a few different light brown paints before settling on a colour that I thought looked a little more natural.
I've still got to do his snow basing, but I'll do that together with the Koldun Lord and Kodiak.

And that's the 25 point mark for my Khador! I'm not sure what I'm going to do about a group photo, as my backdrop isn't big enough to fit all of them and lighting is going to be an issue. Hopefully I can figure out something tomorrow.

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Khador - Last Models Undercoated!

I spent Saturday morning assembling the Koldun Lord and Kodiak before getting an undercoat on the last three models for my Khador. After opening my Christmas present yesterday (two Hordes armies - yay!), it's going to be tough getting through these last three models with my new shiny Hordes calling out to me - but I swore I'd finish my Khador before starting on them!

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Khador - Man-O-War Shocktroopers (Max)

My Christmas holidays started today, so with the day off I managed to finish off the last of my Shocktroopers. It was a tough week, as painting each of these guys takes significantly longer than standard infantry units (like the Widowmakers I painted last week). I'm glad I managed to get the unit done though, and am quite pleased with how they look all together.

Now just the War Dog to go, and my Khador will be sitting pretty at 25 points!

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Khador - Man-O-War Shocktroopers (Min)

First thing - these guys have a LOT of hard-to-paint places. Between their legs and behind their shields are particularly tricky to get paint on, but I guess in the end you can't really see them anyway.

Also to note about painting these guys - they're big. I had always kind of thought they were standard infantry units, but they're actually quite big - bigger than Space Marine Terminators, and probably as big as some of the light 'jacks from other factions.

I'm still chugging along, trying to get one of these guys painted everyday! Hopefully have the max unit finished by the end of the week!

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3 More Sleeps Til Christmas...

My safely packaged Hordes armies!

I mentioned earlier that I put through an order with Defiant Gaming for two 35-point Hordes armies - well I was very happy to come home yesterday to find that the package had arrived!

Inventory check. Not really, Defiant haven't gone wrong
before... I just wanted an excuse to look at my toys!

Last week when I put my order through, there were a few items that were out of stock. I wasn't really fussed, as Dan was still going to send me through the majority of the order which was in stock, and send the rest through when possible - so I wasn't expecting to receive my complete armies until next year sometime.
I was ecstatic to receive an email from Dan at Defiant Gaming, saying that he had gotten hold of the out of stock items, and I would be getting them just one day after receiving the majority of my order! Another example of Defiant's brilliant customer service!

Back in your box, and under the tree!

So I've received the bulk of my Christmas present this year with the rest arriving today. The wife allowed me to open the package to check that the order was correct (but I wasn't allowed to open the individual model boxes!) before putting the box under the tree. I did manage to take some sneaky photos, which will help to get me through until Christmas!

3 more sleeps!

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